The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
